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Show lowing the investigation. Besides his wife and daughters, Verda 8, and Erma 2, Pulley is survived by his father, George H. Pulley; three brothers, Frank, Elmer El-mer and Albert, all of American Fork; and two sisters, Mrs. Hazel Witnmer, American Fork and Mrs. Thcone Gray, Idaho; two half-brothers, half-brothers, William Pulley and George Pulley, Jr., American Fork, and one half-sister, Sarah Pulley, American Fork. A. F.MAN TAKES HIS OWN LIFE AMKRICAN FORK Mark G. Pulley, American Fork, after twice beinj; persuaded by his wife, Vio-lel, Vio-lel, to take on nxe and a gun out oT the house early Monday morning, brought his 12-gauge shotgun back into his home the second time and shot himself through the heart at 2:30 a. m. Pulley, despondent for more than a year, was restless all through the night. Ho had been persuaded by his wife and small j daughter Vorda to come back to I bed after he had been up five or six times. The second time he brought the gun in he flourished it on his wife and eight-year-old daughter in the kitchen, then went into the bedroom, shut the door, when the report of the gunshot gun-shot was heard. He died instantly. Pulley's despondency is believed to have arisen partly from he death of his son, Cyril, who was killed three years ago by being crushed under a school bus. Deputy Sheriff Walter Durrunt and American Fork city marsh-.ls Albert Kirk and Jared Mercer, Jr., took Pulley to the undertaking establishment at about 3 a. m., fol- |